Bug #80327 [Opn->Ver]: Conflicts of parameter names and forwarded variadics

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80327&edit=1 ID: 80327 Updated by: nikic@php.net Reported by: david at grudl dot com Summary: Conflicts of parameter names and forwarded variadics -Status: Open +Status: Verified Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: 8.0.0RC3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Nice catch! I don't think we will address this for PHP 8.0, but generally agree that the rules around named parameters in conjunction with variadics should probably be relaxed. There is also the related problem, independent of the forwarding use-case, that it's not really possible to use positional variadics in conjunction with named parameters. That is, doing something like this is not legal: array_push(array: $bar, 1, 2, 3) Again, we could allow collecting the extra positional arguments into the variadic here. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-11-06 13:25:37] david at grudl dot com Description: ------------ I quote directly from RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params > One of the primary use-cases for that variadic/unpacking syntaxes is forwarding of arguments. > The support for named arguments in both variadics and argument unpacking ensures that this pattern > will continue to work once named arguments are introduced. function passthru(callable $c, ...$args) { return $c(...$args); } Unfortunately, there is one limitation for forwarding at this time. You cannot pass argument with key 'c' to $args because it conflicts with parameter $c. So this passthru($callable, $args); May throws "Uncaught Error: Named parameter $c overwrites previous argument." depending on the content of (the otherwise valid) $args. How to solve it? A possible solution is to use a very non-conflicting name for $c, for example passthru(callable $██, ...$args), but I think that a better solution would be to ignore the conflicts if positional parameters are passed and variadics follows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80327&edit=1